In anticipation of the International day of Awareness and Prayer against Human Trafficking, 8 February 2018, RENATE member Begoña Iñarra published the following blog on RENATE France website www.renatefrance.wordpress.com
Le Pape François a fait de la question migratoire un marqueur fort de son pontificat. Il  a développé une approche nouvelle articulée autour des verbes : accueillir, protéger, promouvoir,intégrer ».
A l’occasion de la journée mondiale du migrant et du réfugié, les évêques de
France, nous indiquent les actions qui, dans le contexte français et pour
chacun des quatre verbes, les paraissent être prioritaires. Parmi elles,
certaines pourront nourrir un plaidoyer préalable aux négociations des
pactes mondiaux de 2018.
Lisez le document des évêques avec ces priorités.
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Adapted by Anne Kelleher, RENATE Communications.
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An association of leading European Universities has been assessing its achievements and looking ahead to ensure international cooperation. Newly focused with the aim of creating a new pan-European network of future leaders ‘’…committed to interacting with the wider community and across nations…’’ entitled EUROPAEUM, it will ask 30 scholars to suggest solutions to social and political issues such as Human Trafficking, youth unemployment and regional separatism.
Oxford University, St. Andrews, (Scotland),  the University of Luxembourg are amongst the elite participating universities, where Dr. Andrew Graham, Executive Chairperson of EUROPAEUM stated:   
“What we want are outcomes that will excite people and be useful, whether to an MP or the European parliament or an NGO or business. It could be all sorts of things, but it has to interest someone and give them a solution that they can bring about.”  
Participating Universities are; Charles University, Prague; The Complutense University of Madrid; Graduate Institute of International and Development studies, Geneva, Switzerland; University of Helsinki; Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland; Leiden University,the Netherlands; Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich; University of Luxembourg; University of Oxford; Pompeu Fabra University, Catalonia; University of St. Andrews (Scotland); Pantheon-Sorbonne University (Paris).  
For more: www.europaeum.org
Anne Kelleher, RENATE Communications.  

New 12-part report Confronting Root Causes: Forced Labour in Global Supply Chains– Genevieve Lebaron, Neil Howard, Cameron Thibos and Penelope Kyritsis, shines a light on key questions we need to ask when examining forced labour in global supply chains.
While Policy makers, business leaders and civil society organisations call for a determination of the root causes, commonly used terms such as ‘poverty’ and ‘globalisation’ tend to obscure ‘’a web of decisions and processes that maintain an unjust status quo, while being used as euphemisms for deeper socio-economic structures that lie at the core of the capitalist global economy. ’’ (Lebaron, Howard, Thibos and Kyritsis, 2018).   
Working from the classic economic metaphor of ‘’Supply and Demand,’’ the report explores the understanding of an over-supply and imminently exploitable workforce versus the demand for their labour, integral to the contemporary constructs of global supply chains.
On the Supply side, the report identifies four dynamics which contribute to creating a corpus of workers who are vulnerable to human trafficking and exploitation: specifically, Poverty, Identity and discrimination, Limited labour protections and Restrictive mobility regimes.
On the Demand side, the report proffers Concentrated Corporate Power and Ownership, Outsourcing, Irresponsible Sourcing Practices and Governance Gaps, as the four dynamics which ‘’either create pressure within the market for highly exploitable forms of labour or open up spaces within which labour can be exploited.’’ (ibid).
Poverty and labour exploitation are frequently inter-linked with  forced labour, human trafficking and modern slavery and this particular report attempts to provide the reader with the tools to navigate the global value chain, which binds all of us and therefore implicates all of us in the responsibility to play our part in bringing an end to human trafficking and modern slavery.
Full report at: https://www.opendemocracy.net/beyondslavery/genevieve-lebaron-neil-howard-cameron-thibos-penelope-kyritsis/confronting-root-causes
Prepared by Anne Kelleher, RENATE Communications.